“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
(I always imagined that paradise would be some sort of library.)
Jorge Luis Borges
quotes
Quote #34: “First they ignore you… “
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“First they ignore you.
then they laugh at you.
then they fight you,
then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Quote # 32: Pete Seeger’s Banjo
“This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”
…words inscribed on Pete Seeger’s banjo
Pete Seeger
(1919-2014)
Quote #31: Salvador Dali on madness
“The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.”
Salvador Dali (as quoted by Susan Sontag in As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh)
Quote #30: John Cage on the meaning of life
“No why. Just here.”
John Cage
Quote #28: The Door of Opportunity…or of Truth
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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Quote #27: Allen Ginsberg, “Follow your inner moonlight…”
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide your madness.” Allen Ginsberg
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Weekly Quote # 20: September 1, 2013
Evening at the Barnes.
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“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day—unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”
–Old Zen adage
Quote of the Week #19: August 25, 2013
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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”
Steve Jobs
Quote of the week #16: August 11, 2013
“I stepped into a bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel’s Game
Eau de Livre
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